to kill the self, then find it
Turning into Dwelling Christopher Gilbert Graywolf Press ($16.00) Christopher Gilbert (1949-2007) published one book of poetry in his...
the ice blues
Some poetry written as winter slowly turned into spring this year. The images were captured quite accidentally. I was in the field...
an unobstructed view
patients When I open the waiting room door, there's only one empty chair. It's the usual Miami crowd. Burberry and Botox. Dermabrasion...
ghost stories
bones Someone suggested going to the cemetery in the middle of the night. It was 1995. Five of us, tromping through soggy October leaves...
like shining from shook foil
Yearling By Lo Kwa Mei-en Alice James Books, $15.95 Lo Kwa Mei-en’s debut collection, Yearling, is gorgeous in its angers. Drop dead....
disorder reigns
3 Sometimes I miss my house of ghosts. The way it crouched on Monterey Street in New Orleans as if it were falling back into the earth....
when the roundtable is a rhombus
They all answered an ad posted in a café. A Xeroxed sheet of paper tacked to a bulletin board: “Want to get feedback on your work? ...
turn out the stars
From Jack Main, a work in progress It was hard to catch the old man off guard, but the raven did it that night, in a dream. “I see you...
husks
Standing in front of the museum is a patch of corn. Green stalks stand in soldierly lines. Enfolded in leaves, the yellow ears stay...
fragments: the contents of a box
This piece actually began as fragments. I was in a bit of a creative rut for a few months and couldn't seem to finish anything. I began...